I'm curious to see what other want to do with their Arduinos (regardless of actually doing it) Reply with your project ideas, suggestions and/or resources to information about projects posted. Here's my list so far (some of these are not original, just things I want to do):
Intelligent bug zapper: shows how many bugs were zapped and average/cumulative zap time
Whole house climate control: Controls HVAC and ceiling fans, watches for diffs between upstairs/downstairs, ceiling/floor and outside temps. Could be made to control window shades and even opening and closing windows too.
Anti-tailgator: uses distance and speed sensors to light up a sign in the back window of a car. Uses LED matrices to display a random choice of "too close", "back off", "tailgator" or other brief message.
Energy efficiency/reporting: put current sensors on each circuit breaker in the AC panel and report usage.
UPS/power control system: Add power control and usage reporting to a normal UPS
- Delayed shutoff to allow projector TV cooling.
- Control circuit runs from UPS battery for total power shutoff.
- IR remote control
Auto-internals: read the OBDII data from the car and display the state of all the sensors, calculate MPG (mpguino?)
RBS lights and switches: My rolling ball sculpture has many switches on the track and I decided to use my Arduino to trigger lighting events from them.
Ultimate computer case fan controller
- Fan speed control per sensor or multiples
- All fans to max speed by any sensor breaching alarm threshold
- Always on mode: fan never turns off
- Min/off mode: fan turns off below the minimum temperature
- Mode assigned per fan
- For fans controled by multiple sensors, control based on highest sensor or by average of all
- Manual override for any/all fans
- Temperature thresholds per sensor: Low/off, Max speed, Alarm
- LCD display shows current temp, alarm temps and fan params
- UI uses cycling mode button and two value buttons
- Choose between PWM and analog output? Per fan? hmmm...
